Tiger Woods, Warren Beatty, and the American Man: Who Is Allowed to Do It?
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Who’s allowed to have a lot of sex and who isn’t is now a subject at the heart of American culture. The reason Tiger Woods shouldn’t be having copious sex is explained in great detail by my colleague, Buzz Bissinger, in this month’s Vanity Fair. Bissinger’s view is that Woods made himself into a non-sexual being and, thus, having sex—so much sex—exploded his image of ineffable remoteness. This cool specimen turned into a dirty bastard. |
On the other hand, we learn from reports about a forthcoming biography of another cool guy, Warren Beatty, that, by biographer Peter Biskind’s math, Beatty has had sex with 13,000 women—a credit to his image, rather than a liability. |
But it may be too that there is a sexual class system. We allow some master-of-the-universe bulls to be sexually profligate, while we begrudge others—arriviste poodles like Edwards—satisfaction of their desires. Read more at www.newser.com |
New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope’s MIRI |
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — It’s going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that’s what the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors will do. Now there’s a new short movie that shows what the MIRI detectors are all about and what they can do. |
A new video about the MIRI detectors is part of an on-going series called “Behind the Webb” about the James Webb Space Telescope. It was produced and created by the Space Science Telescope Institute (STScI) of Baltimore, Md. and is available at www.webbtelescope.org. Part of the video was shot at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. in January 2009. “It is a broadcast quality video in high definition and will be available in almost a dozen varieties of file formats from Quicktime, to WMV to Flash, to M4V, and all in different sizes,” said Mary Estacion, News Video Producer at STScI. Read more at www.sciencedaily.com |
another lame war———-the war on drugs- or the war on who actually gets to control the money it generates……….. Staged photos of slain drug lord stir controversy |
Images of Arturo Beltran Leyva’s corpse covered with blood-stained peso notes and jewelry raise concerns that law enforcement is adopting the tactics of hit men. An inquiry is underway. |
Reporting from Mexico City -
The dead drug lord lay on his back, blood-soaked jeans yanked down to the knees. Mexican peso notes carpeted his bullet-torn body, and U.S. $100 bills formed neat rows next to his bared belly. |
Several commentators said the photos, some of which showed religious jewelry laid across Beltran Leyva’s stomach, were evidence that the government had adopted the macabre public-relations methods used by hit men. Gang members often line their victims’ bodies along the roadside or hang them from bridges, leaving menacing, handwritten messages to scare foes. |
more at source- production is up 11%- it is going up everywhere-
stuff- just one of those little films i look at from time to time- and try and figure out - what it means- to me? and to the rest of us…………… | “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” |
Converging technology, transhumanism, and our future in the making. The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history of eugenics and its new cutting edge transformation. Read more at www.informationliberation.com |
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